The Second Oil Age – Details, episodes & analysis

Suspended between a troubled surface world and her deep-sea destination, UDEX agent Synøve Pan strikes a deal with a stowaway journalist -- and prepares for what awaits her on Atlas Station. 

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UDEX agent Synøve Pan descends toward Atlas Station in search of a missing person, but discovers she’s not alone aboard the automated sub. 

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When an oil executive goes missing aboard the deep-sea Atlas Station, the company sends agent Synøve Pan down for answers — and she’s just the woman to get them. Welcome to the Second Oil Age: a sci-fi podcast that transports listeners to a post–energy-crisis world in which humanity’s thirst for oil is satisfied through a bargain with a mysterious deep-sea species. The first three episodes drop October 31st.

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In a race against time, Synøve Pan makes her way through the chaos of Atlas Station in an attempt to bring the truth of what happened back to the surface. Everything hangs in the balance, and a force of unimaginable horror stands in her way.

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Unarmed and bloodied, Synøve Pan must find way out of the deep sea dominion of the Tritons -- but ascension comes at a price. 

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The Deep asks the questions now, and Synøve Pan struggles to survive an otherworldly inquisition.

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The ocean holds many deeper, darker places than Atlas Station -- and Synøve Pan finds herself trapped there and charged with a heinous betrayal. 

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Chaos erupts on Atlas Station and Synøve Pan is thrust into the very center of the conflict.

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Synøve Pan finally meets an emissary of the Deep and demands answers in her missing persons case. She gets far more than she bargained for.  

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Synøve Pan wanders the crowded confines of Atlas Station, seeking answers in a looking-glass distortion of the world above. As her pharmacological enhancements wear off, she’s forced to face some of her own inner demons. 

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